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Back in 1980, William Friedkin made a controversial psychological thriller called Cruising starring Al Pacino, and it’s rumored that in order to avoid an X rating, the director had to leave 40 minutes of gay S&M footage on the cutting room floor. So, for a project that premiered at Sundance in 2013, Franco decided to collaborate with award-winning filmmaker Travis Matthews to recreate and re-contextualize those lost scenes by casting Franco’s straight (and increasingly uncomfortable) friend in the lead role. The result? A meta “homo-sex-art-film,” as Franco called it. Because what actor’s resume would be complete without one?